Burning playlist to two disc drives

I have two optical drives. I should be able to burn a playlist to both drives. When I burn disk images from Disk Utility, I can select either drive and burn to it. However, in iTunes I can't find how to select either drive. Anyone know how?
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Did the checkmarks go missing?
From iTunes > Help > iTunes Help
+To create an audio CD:+
+1. Choose Edit > Preferences, click Advanced, and click Burning.+
+2. Select Audio CD as the Disc Format.+
+3. To have all the songs on the CD play at the same volume, select Use Sound Check.+
+4. Click OK.+
+5. Select the playlist containing the songs you want to burn to the CD, and make sure all the songs you want to include on the CD have a checkmark beside them.+
+6. Click Burn CD (at the bottom of the iTunes window) and insert a blank disk.+

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